Improvement in watering-troughs



0. J. SMI TH. Watering-Trough.

No. 205,430. Patented June 25,1878.

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N4 PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORSON J. SMITH, OF FABMER CITY, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATERlNG-TROUGHS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,430, dated June 25,1878; application filed May 17, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORsoN J. SMITH, of Farmer City, in the county of DeWitt and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Watering-Trough and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same.

My improved trough is formed of two partsa cover and a base-which arerelatively so constructed that they fit together, but may be easilydetached.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is mainly a side elevation of the trough, one end being in section.Fig. 2 is an end elevation with part broken away. Fig. 3 is across-section on line :19 :v of Fig. 1. Fig. i is a detail horizontalsection on line y y of Fig. 2.

The trough proper, A, has an oblong rectangular form, and the cover B atriangular or gable form. The trough A is shallow, and provided with atransverse central partition, a, and parallel end pieces b b, which arerabbeted on the upper edge to form a lap-joint with the triangular ends0 of the cover B, which are similarly rabbeted on the lower edge. videdwith gains or mortises at e e e-that is to say, at points opposite thepartition a and end pieces I) b-to receive the ends of the triangularends 0 c and central partition f of the cover B.

The lower edges of the cover rest on the upper edges of the trough, andthe two are secured together by hooks and staples g, applied to theirends, which devices permit their convenient detachment when required.

Openings h are formed in each side of the cover B, to allow the stock tohave access to the water, and the openings on one side alternate inposition with those of the other, so

The sides d d of the trough are prothat animals may not interfere witheach other when drinking'at both sides of the trough at the same time.Boards or lids i are hinged to the inclined sides of the cover B, so asto lie flat thereon, and thereby close the openin gs h, or to be heldelevated by hooks k.

The use of the cover as a whole is chiefly to shade the water andprevent access of snow or dust or other foreign substance to it; also,to prevent small stock getting into the trough. This function is moreperfectly performed by adding the hinged pieces t but a good result isobtainable without them. The openings in the cover prevent stockcrowding while drinking, and enable a greater number to drink at onetime from a trough of a given length than would be otherwisepracticable.

Water may be supplied to the trough through valved openings in the endsof the cover. It is obvious that in place of a roof or cover of gableform one side only may be inclined and the other vertical, openingsbeing in such case formed in the inclined side, but not in the other.

I do not claim, broadly, a trough having a gable roof or cover providedwith hinged sides and openings therein.

What I claim is The improved waterin g-trou gh for live stock,

consisting of the base portion A, having sides provided with gains 6 andthe rabbeted ends b b, and the detachable cover B, having rabbetedtriangular ends 0 0, also provided with openings h in the inclinedsides, the hinged lids i, and the hooks and staples for connecting thebase and cover, all combined as shown and described.

. ORSON J. SMITH. Witnesses:

REUBEN OLEARWTERS, GEORG W. HERRICK.

